Under the mountain wall
Subtitle: a chronicle of two seasons in Stone Age New Guinea
By: Peter Matthiessen.
Series: Penguin nature classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Dani (New Guinea people) -- Social life and customs.; New Guinea -- Social life and customs.
Description: "In the Baliem Valley in central New Guinea live the Kurelu, a Stone Age tribe that survived into the twentieth century. Peter Matthiessen visited the Kurelu with the Harvard-Peabody expedition in 1961 and wrote Under the mountain wall as an account not of the expedition, but of the great warrior Weaklekek, the swineherd, Tukum, U-mue and his family, and the boy Weake, killed in a surprise raid"--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes index.